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From: Mills@UDEL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  timezones in 822
Message-ID: <8805280116.aa28043@Huey.UDEL.EDU>
Date: 28 May 88 05:16:38 GMT
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Mike,

Yup, "Z" is used by aviation, maritime and weather radio and wire as well. 
Actually, I'm bent much less by what you call it than by where the Sun is
when you holler "lunchtime!" To be really picky, the real standard time
told by the fuzzballs is UT-0 (corrected for mean solar rotation in steps
of one second). It is possible to correct this time to 100-ms steps
by listening to the radio broadcasts more carefully (these corrections
are included in the broadcasts as vernier adjustments). If there is a
huge groundswell of anguish that these adjustments are not included
in the existing primary time server chimes, I would be glad to reconsider
the issue. Then you could navigate your yachts by NTP down to the second
or so in longitude. Happy day.

Dave